Late-Archean granitoid-hosted lode-gold deposits, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: deposit characteristics, crustal architecture and implications for ore genesis

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 13, Issue 1-5, 1998, Pages 65-102

  Cassidy, Kevin F ^a,b   Groves, David I ^b   McNaughton, Neal J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; GOLD DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION; ORE GENESIS;

AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, YILGARN CRATON;

EID: 0031661971     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-1368(97)00014-0     Document Type: Article

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